Album of the day: Hairy Chapter – Can’t Get Through

Lovingly pinched from The Ripple Effect: Absolutely frenetic, guitar searing heavy psych from Germany, Hairy Chapter steamrolls past most of the similar bands of the time. German axe God Harry Titlbach single handedly makes the Scorpions Lonesome Crow, seem pastoral by comparison.

Titlbach coaxes, flexes and wrings screaming howls out his guitar, pained with anguish, reaching a tone of angst-filled mourning from his six-string that I’ve never heard before or since. The whole album is only five tracks but from start to finish it’s a rip-roaring, freakout of blues-based proto-metal. Adding frosting to their meaty cake, a touch of krautrock rears its Teutonic head, adding unusual textures and rhythms to the mix.

Comfortably, this album is a lost classic of the proto-metal period, still rooted in the heavy psych of the time, but washed in its own world of morbid insanity and maudlin mental anguish. The Laser’s Edge magazine once declared this album “unihibited guitar debauchery.”

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